Google Sheets clears contents when cell is selected

kasmith1017

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My company uses Google Sheets for some things when sharing between teams. When I first started I had a MacBook and had this issue in both Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. I now have a Dell laptop and this happens in both Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome both using Windows 10 and now having upgraded to Windows 11. When I open a shared file in Google Sheets, if I have a cell selected it will clear the contents. It does not seem to matter if I'm in the cell or if I move to a new cell for it to happen, and sometimes it happens after only a second or two, but it inevitably happens without me doing a single thing other than opening the workbook and clicking "OK" at the top when Google confirms the account I'm viewing the sheet in. How on earth do I stop this from happening? I'm getting better at recognizing this but I'm still fairly new to my organization so sometimes I've cleared the contents of some fairly material things without realizing this "feature," and I use that term loosely.
 

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